Re: Replication on the same box ????

David Williams wrote: > > In article <3266976B.6779@geocities.com>, Manickam R Muthukumar > <muthukumar@geocities.com> writes > >Hi cid folks, > > > > I am having SUN 1000 with SUN OS, I am > >wondering whether we can replicate an Informix > >instance on the same box. I know that we have to > >restore from level-0 archive to start the > >replication which will try to write on to the same > >chunks. My question is there any work around for > >this. Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > >Cheers > > No, the pathnames to all chunks must be the same so yes you would > overwrite the same chunks. Database replication is designed so you > have a second machine as a backup to the first. > > Have you considered mirroring? This is where you define a 'primary' > chunk (i.e. a normal chunk) and a 'mirror' chunk which is maintained > as an EXACT copy of the #primary' chunk. Obviously the mirror chunk > can be on a separate disk.... > > -- > David Williams Hi, Thank you very much for your suggestion, unfortunately we are not going to use mirroring. The primary purpose for same machine replication is that we are short of machines and we wanted to test out application under replication and test it out for any unforeseen bugs. Thanks anyway. -- ~~~~ SMILE !! increases the face value ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.R.Muthukumar Database Consultant Email:m_muthukumar@litle.net muthukumar@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9956/ !! Strong believer in making things work !! (Opinion expressed here are mine only) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~